Special Issues

Overview

Signa Vitae is a completely open-access, peer-reviewed international journal dedicated to delivering the leading edge research in emergency medicine, intensive care medicine, anesthesia and pain medicine to the public.

Signa Vitae encourages scientists and academicians around the world to share their original writings in the form of original research, review, mini-review, systematic review, short communication, case report, letter to the editor, commentary, rapid report, news and views, editorial, as well as meeting report. Full texts of all published articles, can be downloaded free of charge from our website.


ISSN Numbers

Print ISSN: 1334-5605

Online ISSN: 1845-206X


Impact Factor

Publication Frequency: Monthly

Current Impact Factor: 1.1 (2022)

Scopus CiteScore: 1.0 (2022)

JCR Category Rank: Q4 in EMERGENCY MEDICINE - SCIE


Journal History

2006: Signa Vitae released the inaugural issue.

2006: Signa Vitae has been indexed by SCIE.

2008: Signa Vitae has been indexed by Scopus.

2008: Signa Vitae received its first Impact Factor 0.045.

2020: MRE Press started to publish Signa Vitae (from Volume 16 Issue 1) with Open Access under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license.


Copyright/Open Access

Papers published in Volumes 1 Issue 1–Volume 15 Issue 2 (from October 2006 to September 2019), were published by the previous publisher, and now are copyright MRE Press.


Starting from 2020, MRE Press started to publish Signa Vitae (from Volume 16 Issue 1) with Open Access under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. The copyright is retained by the author(s). For details, see: Copyright & License.


MRE Press will insert the following note on the first page of the published text:

© Year The Author(s). Published by MRE Press. This is an open access article under the CC BY 4.0 license.


Abstracted / indexed in

Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch) Created as SCI in 1964, Science Citation Index Expanded now indexes over 9,200 of the world’s most impactful journals across 178 scientific disciplines. More than 53 million records and 1.18 billion cited references date back from 1900 to present.

Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition aims to evaluate a journal’s value from multiple perspectives including the journal impact factor, descriptive data about a journal’s open access content as well as contributing authors, and provide readers a transparent and publisher-neutral data & statistics information about the journal.

Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index The CAS Source Index (CASSI) Search Tool is an online resource that can quickly identify or confirm journal titles and abbreviations for publications indexed by CAS since 1907, including serial and non-serial scientific and technical publications.

Index Copernicus The Index Copernicus International (ICI) Journals database’s is an international indexation database of scientific journals. It covered international scientific journals which divided into general information, contents of individual issues, detailed bibliography (references) sections for every publication, as well as full texts of publications in the form of attached files (optional). For now, there are more than 58,000 scientific journals registered at ICI.

Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research The Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research (GFMER) is a non-profit organization established in 2002 and it works in close collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO). The overall objectives of the Foundation are to promote and develop health education and research programs.

Scopus: CiteScore 1.0 (2022) Scopus is Elsevier's abstract and citation database launched in 2004. Scopus covers nearly 36,377 titles (22,794 active titles and 13,583 Inactive titles) from approximately 11,678 publishers, of which 34,346 are peer-reviewed journals in top-level subject fields: life sciences, social sciences, physical sciences and health sciences.

Embase Embase (often styled EMBASE for Excerpta Medica dataBASE), produced by Elsevier, is a biomedical and pharmacological database of published literature designed to support information managers and pharmacovigilance in complying with the regulatory requirements of a licensed drug.

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